Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-10-28
NO. 43.


We must not forget that our fathers were
eNilcs from their dearly loved native land
driven 10y causes which no longer exist
Freedom 10 worship God" is found in
| England as fully as in America, in our dav.
In placing the Atlantic between themselves
and the Old World civilizations they mnde
an enormous sacrifice. 1t is true that the
wonderful advance Of our people in all the
/ arts and accomplishments which make life
| agreeable has transformed the wilderness
| INTO home where men and women can
live comfortably, elegantly, happily, if they
are Of conteuted disposition and without
that they can be happy nowhere. What
better provision can be made for mortal
man than such as our own Boston can af-
ford its wealthy children a palace on
Commonwealth Avenue or on Beacon street
country place at Framingham or Lenox;
seaside residence at Nahant Beverly
Farms, Newport, or Bar Harbor a pew at
Trinity or Kings Chapel a tomb at Mount
Auburn or Forest Hills with the prospect
OF a memorial stained window after his la
mented demise, lis not this a pretty pro.
gram to offer candidate for human exist
cnce
Give him all these advantages, and he
VIII stu he longing to cross the water, to
get back to that old home of his fathers so
account Of its nearness to Paris. to Geneva.
TO Rome, to all that is most interesting in
Europe. The less wealthy, less cultivated.
less fastidiOus class of Americans are not
so much haunted by these lougings. But
the convenience of living in the Old World
Is SO great, and it is such trial and such a
risk to keep crossing the ocean, that it
seems altogether likely that a considerable
current of emigration will gradually de
velop itself among our people.
Some find the climate Of the other side of
the Atlantic suits them better than their
own. As the New England characteristics
are gradually superseded by those of other
races, other forms of belief, and other as
soclations, the time may come when New
Engander will feel more as if he were
among his own people in London than in
one of our seaboard cities The vast major
ity of our people love their country too
well and are too proud of it to be willing to
expatriate themselves But going back to
our old home, to find ourselves among the
relatives from whom we have separated
Tor a few generations, is not like transfer
ring ourselves to a land where another Ian
guage is spoken, and where there are no
ties of blood and no common religious or
political traditions. |, for one being my
self rs mveterately rooted an American
Dt the Bostonon variety as ever saw him
self mirrored in the Frog Pond, hope that
the exchanges of emgrants and re emi-
grants will be much more evenly balanced
by and by than at present | hope that
more Englishmen like James Smithson will
help to build up our scientific and literary
institutions. l hope that more Americans
like George Peabody will call down the
blessings of the English people by noble
to the cause of charity 1t
was with deep feelings of pride and graft
.ude that | looked upon the bust Of Long
fellow, holding its place among the monu-
nents of England's greatest and best chill
iren. see with equal pleasure and pride
that one of our own large hearted country
men had honored the memory of two Eng
ish poets, Milton and Cowper, by the gift
If two beautiful stained windows and with
still ampler muniiicence is erecting a stately
ountain in the birthplace of Shakspere
such acts as these make us feel more and
more the truth Of the generous sentiment
which closes the ode of Washington Allston.
America to England 1--WE are one r'-OH-
'er Wendell HOiDeS in October Atlantic.